Six word stories

Wired did an article where they asked famous authors for short-short-stories of exactly 6 words. The article was refered to on /. where the commentors added a bunch of there own. Here’s some of the best ones…

Links

Less links doesn’t mean no links. I’ve ignored at least 10 so-called-war-on-terror-or-american-politics links today including the 34 pieces of personal information (name, address, friends, credit-card details, etc) that the UK government is now voluntarily handing over to the US secret services every time any Brit…

RPG Meme

Current RPG meme…

“Name 12 characters you have played in RPGs, before looking at the questions that follow. List your characters numbered 1 to 12, with the name of the RPG you played them in. Once you’ve picked your 12 characters, look at the questions and answer accordingly. (No…

Pension

I read an article in The Big Issue over the weekend which discussed how pension funds are often invested in non-ethical companies, eg arms manufacturers, to get the best profits.

I asked around my work today and I found out that I can contact my pension provider and ask to have my money…

Nocturnal weirdness

Bizare but amusing dream last night. I was in New York where I had been given the job of replacing Tobey Maguire as Spiderman in the 4th installment of the film franchise. While I was there I popped in to see Corone, La Reine Misere and their little boy (very sweet, about 3) in their downtown…

There’ll be some changes made…

As regular readers will know I mostly use this blog to list links to things that either I think other people will find interesting or that I want to be able to find again in the future.

Over the last couple of years a significant number of these have been around the Iraq…

Torchwood

I don’t know if it’s cameras or lighting but the BBC has some way of making the programs it produces look really cheap…

If you can get yourself into the “it’s a pantomime” mindset that is also required for the new Dr Who (and you can look past the fact that no-one seems to give a damn when people die) it’s…

Lost — no spoilers

Okay, seen 3x01 of Lost. Complete change again and yes, it’s managed to peak my interest the same way the whole “big pile of electronics underground” did for 2x01.

Well done guys.

Don’t see “Children of Men”

Went to see above film tonight. Note that it is filmed in an extremely documentary style (steadycam, etc) which makes the extreme realism of all the many many people killed and maimed in close-up shots very hard to deal with. This movie is *not* escapism — it’s geniune horror (as…